Reuters
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Emergency UN meeting after US-led forces strike Syrian troops
US-led coalition air strikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, endangering a US-Russian brokered ceasefire and prompting an emergency UN Security Council meeting as tensions between Moscow and Washington escalated.
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At least 29 injured in 'intentional' New York City explosion
An explosion rocked the bustling Chelsea district of Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people in what authorities described as a deliberate, criminal act, while saying investigators had turned up no evidence of a "terror connection."
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Manhattan bomb explosion today at 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue in Chelsea; 29 injured
An explosion rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people, authorities said, adding that they are investigating the blast as a criminal act not immediately linked to any terror organization.
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Suicide bomber kills at least 25 in Pakistani mosque
A suicide bomber shouted "Allahu akbar" and blew himself up in a packed mosque in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 during Friday prayers, a local official said.
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Al Shabaab attacks Somali town near Kenyan border, kill seven troops
Somalia's Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a town in a region near Kenya's border, killing at least seven Somali soldiers, the group and Somali officials said.
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Syria truce 'will not hold out' says senior rebel source
Syria's ceasefire "will not hold out", a senior rebel official in Aleppo warned on Saturday, as air strikes and shelling continued in some places and promised aid deliveries failed to come through.
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City Harvest's Kong Hee appeals guilty verdict but may face extra jail time
City Harvest Church's pastor Kong Hee's eight-year prison sentence should be overturned, his lawyers claimed at an appeal court hearing yesterday.
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Syria ceasefire deal in balance as Aleppo aid plan stalls
Russia said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo on Thursday as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce.
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Merkel wants Germany to get refugees into workforce faster
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Germany needed "viable solutions" to integrate refugees into the workforce faster after she met with blue-chip companies, which have hired just over 100 refugees since around a million arrived in the country last year.
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Britain's Libya intervention was flawed and Cameron was to blame, say MPs
Britain and France led international efforts to help oust Libya's then-leader Muammar Gaddafi in early 2011.
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Clinton's pneumonia: 'I didn't think it was a big deal'
Democrat Hillary Clinton said on Monday she could resume presidential campaigning in a couple of days after a bout of pneumonia .
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Blow to Clinton campaign as she falls ill at 9/11 memorial
Hillary Clinton is suffering from pneumonia, the Democratic presidential candidate's personal doctor said on Sunday after she fell ill at a September 11 memorial.